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We’re pleased to announce the online pre-registration details for QuakeCon 2015, which will take place in Dallas, TX on Thursday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 26th. We will be offering a number of premium packages for purchase through the show’s online pre-registration site, registration.quakecon.org.

Online pre-registration will open in a series of five stages. The ‘BYOC Select-a-Seat with UAC Command Center VIP Seating Package’ will make its QuakeCon debut and will become available on Wednesday, March 4th. Full descriptions for each of the limited packages, and the dates they will become available are below.

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QuakeCon, the ultimate video game festival, will take place on-site at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, TX on Thursday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 26th. Doors to QuakeCon will open on Thursday, July 23rd at 10:00am CT and will remain open through July 26th. For more information visit: www.quakecon.org.

In other news, there is now a ..::LvL Android App. The App is in a beta stage and features may be added in the future. For now, the only real advantage over the web site are notification (which can be disable).

Jackhammer is a new level editor for Quake BSP based games (namely, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena and Half Life). It's got a new version out that supports 64-bit and the Q3A engine. The Linux version also work with the Half Life on Linux.

The Macore deadline has passed and the submissions are in! Sixteen total submissions there are, so let's link them for you so you can give them a try. Just a quick recap, the contest was to celebrate Quake 3 Arena's 15th anniversary (which ..::LVL had a cool site loading screen to let you all know). So click “Read More” to see the links.

On this day in 1999 Q3A was released! My girlfiend (who became my wife) got it for me for Christmas from Amazon. She paid by check (you could back then) and got me the Tin Box editition. It played crappy on my Intel 200 MMX with a VooDoo 2. Ahh, good times! Post your Q3A memories in the comments!

Hard to believe it has been 15 years since Q3A was released. At the endof the month it will also be 15 years for ..::LvL. Shows you howimportant it is to allow people to edit your games. Thanks to idSoftware and thanks to everyone that has built the tools and documentedhow to do stuff.

If you're like me and like to see gameplay of something before you give it a shot (except back when I was a kid!) then you'll enjoy this: gameplay footage of Q3KnockOut. One of Instagib (best thing to come out of Epic!) and three of FFA. Click “Read More” to watch the videos. Head to moddb.com to give it a download. For more information head to the Q3KnockOut website.

Q3knockOut changes your Quake experience in a very unique way: Scoring is not done by directly hit and kill your enemy, but by pushing him out of the area into the void or other deadly spots in a map like lava and such. Q3knockOut comes with new weapon and item behaviors, a very fast gameplay, new ways for cool jumps and moves. As maps you should only use very open ones like the space maps. All standard gametypes are supported: Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch, Tournament and Capture The Flag. Q3knockOut is a server side only modification.

Hey, a mod where killing doesn't help your score (yeah! I might win!) In Q3knockout you push the other guy in to the viod! :) This is an older mod that has recently been tweaked so all us Quakers can enjoy some new features (and hear about it as I never heard about it). Some new features worth mentioning: Dynamic Bot skill, sticky grenades (vs super bouncy ones) and Quad pickup is announced globally. Click "Read More" to see the 1.5.0 changelog.

It's a server side mod so you don't need it if you just want to play. You can download it on moddb.com or from it's own site.

You can play this new version of Q3knockOut online 24/7 on this server:"Q3knockOut @4Netplayers"194.97.165.140:27960